[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 208 (Thursday, October 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55812-55813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26100]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 44-2009]
Foreign-Trade Zone 25--Port Everglades, FL; Application for
Subzone South Florida Materials Corporation (Fuel Product Storage) Port
Everglades, FL
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by Broward County, Florida, grantee of FTZ 25, requesting
special-purpose subzone status for the fuel product distribution
terminal of South Florida Materials Corporation (SFMC), located in Port
Everglades, Florida. The application was submitted pursuant to the
provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-
81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was
formally filed on October 22, 2009.
The SFMC terminal (8 employees, 9.93 acres, 1.3 million barrel
capacity) is located at 1200 SE. 32nd Street, Port Everglades, Florida.
The facility primarily is used for the receipt, storage and
distribution of jet fuel by pipeline to carriers operating at the Miami
International and Fort Lauderdale
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International Airports. The company also uses the facility to store,
blend and distribute gasoline, diesel fuel, biodiesel, biofuels and
certain fuel blendstocks, including ethanol. The company is not
requesting to blend foreign status products in the proposed subzone.
Some of the products are or will be sourced from abroad or from U.S.
refineries under FTZ procedures. Duty rates range from duty-free to
52.5 cents/barrel to 7% ad valorem for fuel products, duty-free to 6.5%
for biofuels, and 1.9%-2.5% + 14.27 cents/liter for ethanol.
Zone procedures would exempt SFMC from customs duties and Federal
excise taxes on foreign status jet fuel used for international flights,
some 20-35 percent of the terminal's shipments. On domestic sales, the
company would be able to defer duty payments on foreign status products
until shipped from the facility and entered for consumption. The
application indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help
improve the facility's international competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Diane Finver of the FTZ
Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application and case record and to report
findings and recommendations to the Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is
December 28, 2009. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to January 12, 2010.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Diane Finver at [email protected] or (202) 482-1367.
Dated: October 22, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-26100 Filed 10-28-09; 8:45 am]
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